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From: Alterations of Bacteroides sp., Neisseria sp., Actinomyces sp., and Streptococcus sp. populations in the oropharyngeal microbiome are associated with liver cirrhosis and pneumonia

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Cluster and diversity analyses of DGGE profiles of the oropharyngeal mucosal microbiomes of 90 PCR-DGGE profiles. (a) Cluster analysis of DGGE profiles of the oropharyngeal mucosal microbiome; (b) Multidimensional scaling analysis (MDS) based on the predominant oropharyngeal bacterial PCR-DGGE profiles. The plot is an optimized three-dimensional representation of the similarity matrix obtained using BioNumerics software, and the x-, y-, and z-axes represent three different dimensions (Dim 1, Dim 2, and Dim 3, respectively). (c) Principal component analysis (PCA) based on bacterial PCR-DGGE profiles. The plots were reoriented to maximize the variation among lanes along the first three principal components (contributions: 18.2, 8.2, and 7.4 %, respectively) obtained using BioNumerics software. Cubes, group CI; spheres, group CC; cylinders, group HC. (d) Comparison of the diversity index, species richness, and evenness index of oropharyngeal mucosal microbiomes. *p < 0.01; **p < 0.001

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BMC Infectious Diseases

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